Star Wars: Squadrons

Since it will not be a full AAA price, I suspect they grabbed the assets from the BF2 Starfighter mode and made it into a bit bigger game. The system requirements are pretty much the same as well. It's not a bad thing, BF2's space mode is pretty good, great visuals, easy controls. What it lacked was map and mission variety. Also with 12+ players on each side, it was impossible to stay alive for long, especially if you kill anything and get auto-tagged to all enemies with a big "revenge kill" mark. All you could do after that was just fly evasively without fighting at all or just die and respawn. With 5v5 players, this will not be such a big issue and hopefully they made some adjustments in how the Objectives work.

What I hope for is that they expand on it later. I doubt it will be in the SP area (which will probably be 2-3 hours long), but a Co-Op mode will be great with all the variety missions you can do in space. If it remains a PvP exclusive, I will probably drop it in a few weeks tops.

My "Freelancer/X-wing vs Tie Fighter/SWTOR GS/BF2 Starfighter" experience shows that generally we are looking at 50% of the playerbase being complete fodder, 30% being somewhat adequate to almost decent, 10% good pilots, 9 % real good pilots that usually decide the match/fight and 1% absolute aces that either cheat somehow or are just that awesomely good.

In the games I mentioned I find myself mostly in the 9%, sometimes in the 10% on a bad day. If there are enough new/bad players in the match, I can even look as the 1% to them For a while I was even a scourge to some people in SWTOR Truth be told, it can often suck being a good player, because you know what is going on around you. You bust your ass the whole game, but still lose because your other teammates can't find the shooting key with both arms, a map and a tour guide. I have seen people losing a duel to a small stationary AI turret ffs... In such games, you should just have fun, watch the scenery, try other ships or generally fool around, because there is absolutely no point going for a win. "Squadrons" will be pretty to look around at least

So don't worry. There will be a lot of crappy pilots. Even if there isn't some sort of matchmaking, the odds of you being in a match with other weaker players will be pretty high.

I wish. Co-Op for the BF2 Starfighter is something I have been asking for a long time now. It could be great, fighting over Objectives with overwhelming AI waves, intercepting enemy bombers or suicide running into enemy capital ships to destroy their components.